RipScooter

I have had facet joint injections with triggers, these was the very first ones I had. Which resulted in the worst tension headache for a week straight. Ended up at the dr getting a toradol shot to release some of the tension. The dr said the trigger shots caused me to go into a constant muscle spasm that resulted in a server tension headache, and advice me not to get those again. So they decided to start doing the epidural injections, which have worked almost 2 years until Sept this year. I started having “new” symptoms, right at the base of my skull I would start hurting like someone hit me with a baseball bat, then I would get extreme pressure in my head. The pressure was so bad I could feel it in my ears, felt like my ears was going to bust, while all this was going on I felt disorientated and dizzy a little. Told my dr or should I say his NP and he told me that this wasn’t a new symptom and it was just the arthritis. So he decided lets do the facet injections again, to which there was no relief. They have never mention that I might could have fibro, they are so focused on my neck as of right now cause they say it’s the worst of my problems. I know they can’t make me completely pain free and the winter months are the worse for pain. I was just hoping that the new MRI would have shed some light as to why I have been feeling worse. The dizziness, the feeling of choking ( can’t breath) while turned my head left or right, the arm weakness, tingling and strange bruising type pain. Thanks for your time.

This is from my MRI results on 12-26-2013
Exam: MRI of the cervical spine.
Radographic findings: Vertebral body height appears normal. There is minimal spur formation identified. Disc hydration is reduced, consistent with early degenerative disc disease. There has bee straighten of the normal cervical lordosis. No bone marrow infiltrating process or acute fracture identified. There is minimal facet and uncoverebral joint disease. No frank disc herniation is identified. The spinal cord, craniocervical junction, and paraspinal muscilature are unremarkable. Incidental not is made of minimal mucosal thickening within the maxillary sinuses, consistent with sinus disease and adenoidal hypertrophy.
Impression: Early degenerative arthritic disease of the cervical spine with minimal spurring, facet and unconvertebral joint disease, with early degenerative disc disease and loss of cervical lordosis. There is no frank disc herniation.

Exam: MRI of the Lumbar spine.
Radiographic findings: Verebral body height and alignment appears normal. Small marginal spurs are present throughout the lumbar spine. Disc hydration is milkly reduced, consistent with easrly degenerative disc disease. There is no loss of disc height identified. No bone marrow infiltrating process or acute fracture is indentified. There is subcutaneous edma overlaying the paraspinal musculature of the lumbar spine. There is mild facet joint disease throughout the lumbar spine. No disc herniation is identifies. The Spinal canal and neural formina fail to demonstrate any significant narrowing. The conus medullaries, cauda equina and paraspinal musculature are unremarkable.

Impression: Early degenerative arthritic disease of the lumbar spine, without evidence of frank disc herniation.

Thank you so much for your response. I have a CD copy of my MRI as which I am NO doctor or radiologist to read then. But I have researched on how to read them. With that and not knowing exactly which part of the c-spine I am looking at on the down up view, but from what I can tell I have about 3 or 4 places where the nerve roots and vessels travel through the small holes, well they are completely blacked out as it may look like nerve compression. But as I said I am not one that knows how to read a MRI, this was just the researching I found on how to read MRIs via yours and a few other doctors videos on MRIs. Hope I find out soon exactly what is going on. I honestly don’t know how much more I can take with this pain. Thank you once again, Hope you had a great Thanksgiving.